"There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption."
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"I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment."
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"I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that."
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"Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows."
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"Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court."
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"I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more."
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"Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?"
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"Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt."
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"I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely"
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"Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies."
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"something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was."
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"There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it."
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"She'll never love you better than she loves her own children."
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"If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice."
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"I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer."
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"It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see."
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"All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce."
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"You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive."
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"Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them."
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"Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it"
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